Wall St had a mixed session with tech stocks continuing to fall, although chip maker Micron shot the lights out with a strong post close release of quarterly results.
Oil, gold and Bitcoin all fell overnight, but futures trading is pointing to the ASX making a marginal gain on opening.
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Thu 25 Jun 2026 at 7:12am
Market snapshot
- ASX 200 futures: +0.2% to 8,810 points
- ASX 200 (Wednesday): +0.2% to 8,808 points
- Australian dollar: -0.2% to 69.00 US cents
- Wall Street: S&P 500 -0.1% Dow +0.4% Nasdaq -0.4$
- Europe: Dax -0.6%, FTSE +0.3%, Eurostoxx -0.3%
- Spot gold: -2.7% to $US3,997/ounce
- Oil: Brent futures -5.1% to $US73.17/barrel, WTI futures -4.6% to $US69.85/barrel
- Iron ore (Wednesday): +1.3% to $US98.65/tonne
- Copper (LME): -2.0% to $US13,375/tonne
- Bitcoin: -2.4% at $US60,864
Prices current at around 7:00am AEST
Thu 25 Jun 2026 at 7:02am
Good morning
Good morning and welcome to another day on the ABC markets and finance blog.
Stephen Letts from ABC business team limbering up for a blow-by-blow coverage of the day’s events, where every post is hopefully a winner, but none should be construed as financial advice.
Wall Street was a mixed bag overnight with the blue-chip Dow up 0.4% and the benchmark S&P 500 closing marginally lower.
The Nasdaq closed 0.4% lower, but that was before Micron released its strong quarterly results. The chip maker jumped around 10% in post-session trading
The upshot is that at around 7:00am AEST, ASX 200 futures were up 0.2% having bounced around all night.
Coming up later this morning we have the May Labour Force data with the consensus being that employment should pick up after a surprising contraction in April, and unemployment may edge down a notch to 4.4%
As always, the game’s afoot, so let’s get blogging.
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